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40gb Tapes (Compressed) Showing 18.6gb as Max
Anyone have any idea why we're not getting a better compression ratio, if it's adjustable, etc. As I stated earlier, a few months ago, we used to get approx. 70gb backups on two 20g/40gb(compressed) tapes. Now, we're only getting approx. 52gb. The same types of files are still being backed...- gpcfb07
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- Forum: Data Recovery
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40gb Tapes (Compressed) Showing 18.6gb as Max
Thank you for checking. We have a drive cascade setup (backup job distributed between two tape drives) and both of these drives are utilizing a dds-4 tape (20gb uncompressed/40gb compressed). We used to get 70+gb backups with the two drives. Now, it requests "overwritable media" when it hits...- gpcfb07
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- Forum: Data Recovery
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40gb Tapes (Compressed) Showing 18.6gb as Max
Hi, I'm utilizing HP dds-4 tapes with a compressed capacity of 40gb with BackupExec 9.1. A few months ago, I was approaching the 40gb max, so I reduced the size of my backups. They have slowly crept back up in size, but now, BackupExec is reporting the total capacity to be 18.6gb with a 1:1...- gpcfb07
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